In Astoria today as a tag-along with R who is a member of the Oregon Arts Commission. Yesterday we had a fascinating visit to the Maya Lin Cape Disappointment piece that is part of 5 created for the Confluence Project commemorating the journey of Lewis and Clark in 1805-6. The site was gorgeous, just over […]
Category: Art work
Artweek…2011
Here’s a little story…two girls met in art class in 7th grade. They became friends. They dressed in black (like “beatniks”) and took the El to the Loop to the Art Institute to “hang out”…and many years later they began the annual “artweek” visitations. Sometimes in Carolyn’s studio in California, sometimes in mine in Salem. […]
Sketchbook Project
Nan sent me a link to the Sketchboook Project for 2012 and I decided to try it…the idea is fun. So I paid my money and my sketch book arrived yesterday…it’s pretty dinky…take a look…here it is compared to the one I’ve been carrying around… and there are rules…the most important one being that the […]
Patterns: Quilts and Gardens
My curatorial career is coming to it’s apex this week while both shows I have recently curated are on view (“Lord and Schryver” at the Hallie Ford Museum…closing September 18th… and “Bits and Pieces” at Salem Art Association’s AN Bush Gallery, up until mid October). Roger suggested this morning that there are certain similarities between […]
Bits and Pieces: The Opening
Our quilt show “Bits and Pieces” opened Friday night…and it was total fun. As you come up the stairs we see Kay Worthington’s quilt, and then into the gallery with Andrea Balosky’s huge Dahlia Rag at the far end… LeeAnn’s quilts looked smashing, and Local quilter Joanna Price was excited to have a piece in […]
Studio lunch…
Some Portlanders came down for lunch yesterday, and it was so hot outside we ate in the shady and cool studio looking out on the garden which gave me a chance to use the garden plates I made a couple of years ago (it’s hard for many people to believe that given the number of […]
Bits and Pieces: the Show Goes Up
Home after a terrific beach sojourn…and I had to get a coffee immediately…of course… This morning after a lovely breakfast at Nan’s I headed over to Bush Barn to see how the show was coming…yesterday they painted the two walls red, as Kate and I had wanted, and today the quilts were going up… Here’s […]
Inadvertent Moments
I was reading an article in the Thursday NYTimes by Roberta Smith this morning about “inadvertent galleries” around Manhattan…empty showcase windows, a parking area under the High Line, etc. So feeling the need for a little drama, I hit on the idea of giving you a sort of Aaron Siskind-esque tour of some of the […]
Reviewing:
Carolyn’s coming for our annual art week, which means combing through past work for ideas, methods, images. While looking at my photos I thought I might just post some of my own work…it’s MY blog after all? Mostly because all my posts of late look about the same and seem to be about trees. So…not […]
The leafy canopy…
So the very next morning after Alisa’s dinner I heard the now-all-too-familiar sound of chain saws buzzing. I ran out to the deck only to discover a guy in the 40 foot tall walnut tree in the yard behind us. I quickly snapped a picture of the tree before he got started… and ever hopeful […]
On The Way 